The Battle of Wounded Knee marks the end of Indian resistance to White American settlers.
From the mid-1880s the Buffaloes were all but extinct, most of the Indians were in Reservations and the Plains were fully settled by ranchers and homesteaders.
A last gasp the Indians, led by Wovoka, danced the Ghost Dance believing the Great Spirit would come and defeat the Whiteman, return the murdered buffalo and Indians.
The hopes ended in December 1890 as Sitting Bull was assassinated by another Indian, and also Big Foot’s Sioux was massacred at Wounded Knee Creek. There was to be no more opposition to the US Government.